Somalia’s Al-Qaeda linked Shebab threatened Monday to kill all the country’s new lawmakers, saying that an MP killed at the weekend in Mogadishu was just the first to be targeted. “The successful elimination of Mustafa Haji Mohamed was the action of the mujahedeen who are committed to killing all MPs,” a Shebab official who asked not to be named told AFP, saying the group would “kill one-by-one” all other lawmakers. “The remaining 274 MPs are on the waiting list to die if they don’t abandon the criminal organisation that was set up contrary to Islamic law,” the official said, referring to the new parliament selected in August. Parliament’s election this month of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as president and the end of Somalia’s transitional institutions in August had sparked hopes of a new beginning for the country after two decades of war. Some analysts had hoped that Hassan might succeed in bringing the hardline Islamist Shebab rebel group, which considered his predecessor Sharif Sheikh Ahmed a traitor, to the negotiating table. But the new president survived an assassination bid on September 12, just two days after he was elected, when apparent suicide bomb attacks claimed by the Shebab rebels rocked a Mogadishu hotel, killing three soldiers.
Al Shebab rebel group is an off shoot of Al Qaeda. US has successfully neutralized Al Qaeda, however, the off shoots are now threatening somalia, Pakistan and other Muslim countries. It is the Salafi version of Islam inspiring terror groups and the country responsible for this menace is no other than a very close ally of the US.
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